bored

Englisch

Etymology

bore +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• IPA^(key): /bɔɹd/
• IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: board; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

bored

1. simple past and past participle of bore

A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.

Adjective

bored (comparative more bored, superlative most bored)

1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Translations

suffering from boredom

• Arabic: مَلُول m (malūl), ضَجِر m (ḍajir)

  Hijazi Arabic: طفشان (ṭafšān), زهقان (zahgān)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: які́ ну́дзіцца (jakí núdzicca)
• Bulgarian: отегче́н (bg) pf (otegčén), скуча́ещ (bg) (skučáešt)
• Catalan: avorrit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 悶／闷 (mun⁶)

  Mandarin: 厭煩／厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 無聊／无聊 (zh) (wúliáo), 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo)

• Czech: znuděný
• Danish: kede
• Dutch: verveeld (nl)
• Esperanto: enui (eo) (predicative with the person bored in the nominative)
• Finnish: tylsistynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi)
• French: ennuyé (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gelangweilt (de)
• Greek: τρυπημένος (el) (trypiménos), βαριεστημένος (el) (variestiménos)
• Hebrew: משועמם (mesho'amam)
• Hungarian: (adjective): unott (hu), unatkozó (hu), (verb): unatkozik (hu)
• Indonesian: bosan (id)
• Italian: annoiato (it), scocciato (it)
• Japanese: 退屈した (ja) (たいくつした, taikutsu shita)
• Kabuverdianu: enfadadu
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• Khmer: ខ្ជេញ (km) (khcɨñ), នឿយណាយ (km) (nɨəy naay), ធុញ (km) (thuñ)
• Korean: 심심하다 (ko) (simsimhada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێزار (ckb) (bêzar)

• Malay: bosan
• Maori: hongehongeā, hokehokeā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: bił hodiikʼąąd
• Norwegian: kjed
• Polish: znudzony (pl)
• Portuguese: aborrecido (pt), chateado (pt), entediado (pt)
• Romanian: plictisit (ro)
• Russian: скуча́ющий (ru) (skučájuščij), ску́чно (ru) (skúčno) (predicative with the person bored in dative)
• Slovene: zdolgočasen
• Spanish: aburrido (es)
• Swedish: uttråkad (sv)
• Tagalog: kakatamad
• Thai: เบื่อ (th) (bʉ̀ʉa)
• Ukrainian: нудьгу́ючий (nudʹhújučyj)
• Vietnamese: chán (vi)
• Winnebago: horušʼak

Derived terms

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• unbored

(Expressions):

• bored out of one's brains
• bored out of one's mind
• bored out of one's tree
• bored stiff
• bored to tears

Related terms

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

See also

• ennui
• ennuyé

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed